Baby blanket – Handmade Jane stylee

Just a quick post to reflect a quick
project today. When I saw Handmade Jane's baby blanket tutorial last week, I just knew I had to make one! And luckily, I had a
beautiful baby girl to make one for. I'm convinced though that baby
or no baby, I would have made a blanket anyway...too cute not to!

I made a few small changes of my own. I
made my blanket a little more affordable by altering the dimensions
to 29 x 34 inches and I stitched around the finished blanket twice
instead of once. After these photos were taken I also stitched all
the way around my label after my boyfriend pointed out potential
health hazards to the baby...who would've known!?!

I loved Jane's tutorial so much and the
sweet result it produced, that I've invested in some beautiful prints
in the hope of making some extra cash for Christmas. I got them from
the sale section of The Village Haberdashery and M is for make.

I also wanted to say a quick thanks to
all of you who responded to my knitting question in my last post.
Thanks to you guys, I'm making some good progress now.

And finally, as you can see, I've made
a few changes to my blog's design. I'll be adding some more pages
soon too, but if you spot anything dodgy going on in the meantime,
please do let me know!

35 comments:

It is beautiful. You would think by now I would be sinking in adorable little baby blankets. But no. I have been too lazy( or selfish) to make some for Noah. Loving the blog design update too. and you changed your blog name?

That's absolutely gorgeous Marie, it looks like something you'd pay at least £50 for from The White Company! I'm thrilled you used my tutorial and I think the extra row of stitches is a great improvement, love it! x

Oh thats gorgeous, I think i may make one for my cousins baby, although I'm thinking of attempting a quilt for the first time but the baby blanket looks a much safer option so I may go with that idea instead. Thanks for the link :)

your blog re-design is lovely too I love the little vintage images at the top.

really really cute! thanks Marie, my friend is giving birth to twins in october and being as disorganised as ever this is something i can make for each of them in time for the birth!

on a seperate note, do you have any quilting experience - i am going to attempt a bed spread but so confused about colours - is it ok for them to be totally random or should i have some dort of colour scheme, would hate to make it and for it to llok really gross and garish... please help! Hannah xxx

Hey Hannah! Yep, you can defo whip up a couple of these blankets up for October...so easy and cute!

I've never delved into quilting personally, so I can't offer much in the way of method and techniques. But the colour scheme is totally down to you my dear. You definitely don't have to have it all 'matchy-matchy', you could choose 'clashing' prints that had some common or complimentary colours instead to make it a bit edgy. Good luck with it!!!

I did do it myself, but I wouldn't really call it design! All I did was change the background to the polka dots and update my banner, which I made using the free Picmonkey. I'm using the 'simple' template by blogger. Hope this helps, but I do happen to love your blog design!

This is so pretty Marie - I've got this blanket on my to-do list for a friend who's due to have a baby in the next couple of weeks. Love the fabrics you've managed to score too. They'll make such lovely blankets